5 match test series aren't very common, definitely should be trying to get some 3 match test series though. need to stop having such long breaks as well, for tests especially BD usually has huge breaks between series.

Only when England and Australia play each other is when they play 5 Test match series. When India plays England or Australia, they play a 4 Test match series. Even SA get 3 Test match series against the likes of Australia, England and India. The rest play 3 Test match series at the most.

I see next year we're slotted to play SL, WI, and Zimbabwe in Test series and India in an ODI series. So that's about 6 Tests next year which is about what we get. It'll be tough to make the SL series a 3 Test series since they apparently have big tour with Pakistan. I doubt WI would want to make our tour a 3 Test match series. We should however push India to make the ODI series a 2 Test series and then against Zimbabwe we should make it a 3 Test series. That way we can add about 3 Tests without adding any opponents to our schedule and that'd bring it up to 9 Tests for the year which would be great.

For that to happen though, BCB needs to be proactive now and try to contact all the boards and try to get as many matches out of as they can. If they approach them too late, those boards would refuse.

our fitness is still not good enough for 3 test match series. We will probably have to play SRK by the third match with the lack of options.
But as we improve more and more in ODI, we deserve to get 5 match series specially for home.

Absolute shame that teams try fitting in 5/7 match ODIs and 3 T20s etc instead of having more test.

3 test should be a must. The 2 test thing is an absolute joke. But then there isn't much we can say when a team of South Africas caliber agrees to play 2 match test series -- first with Pakistan and now India.

Originally Posted by Tigers_eye
Feasible or not, they only come to Bd because of FTP. No test nation will create a series against BD out of FTP unless they want to skip a series or change the FTP.

I suspect money is a big factor. If we can spend big money, we can certainly attract bigger teams. To me that would be an investment. In return we will get better performance and better TV rights in future. Cricket is a business. We need to understand how to grow it.

Originally Posted by moneymoney
I suspect money is a big factor. If we can spend big money, we can certainly attract bigger teams. To me that would be an investment. In return we will get better performance and better TV rights in future. Cricket is a business. We need to understand how to grow it.

Money is a big factor but not for the traveling team. The traveling team ONLY get travel expense and food stipend. Australia don't get any thing paid extra than Zimbabwe when traveling to SA, Eng etc. Again, they only come to BD because of FTP. Very simple.

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Originally Posted by Tigers_eye
Money is a big factor but not for the traveling team. The traveling team ONLY get travel expense and food stipend. Australia don't get any thing paid extra than Zimbabwe when traveling to SA, Eng etc. Again, they only come to BD because of FTP. Very simple.

Matches can be arranged outside of FTP if BCB wakes up and does something for the players